{"id":347,"date":"2009-03-31T02:35:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2009-03-31T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T08:02:15","slug":"shooting-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/shooting-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shooting<\/strong> has no equal for producing an accurately square (or angled) end on a board while incrementally removing minute thicknesses of wood to make a component fit just right. This shooting board has seen many years of use because it meets my preference for jigs to be simple and adjustable for tolerance<\/a>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is easily constructed<\/strong> using a 9″ x 26″ x 3\/4″ piece of MDF for the base. Plane the working side of a dressed quartersawn mahogany board, 6″ x 3\/4″, straight and square. Attach it to the MDF with screws, leaving a 3″ track on which the side of the plane will ride.<\/p>\n

The track is covered with adhesive-backed 1\/32″ thick UHMW slick plastic <\/a>which makes the plane ride like a sled on ice<\/strong>. Screw a short grain fence, about 7\/8″ thick, a few inches in from the end. To attach the fence, use oversize clearance holes and adjust the squareness until you\u2019re satisfied.<\/p>\n

Break in the new jig<\/strong> by taking a few shavings off the side of the mahogany to create a miniscule rabbet. The outermost part of the plane\u2019s sole will ride on the uncut straight edge\u00a0while the tiny blade projection will nest in the rabbet.\"\"<\/p>\n

In use, don\u2019t worry if the woodworking gremlins<\/strong> confound your attempts to produce a square end on a board even though the fence is “perfectly”<\/a> set. Just use a piece of tape or a shaving judiciously placed on the face of the fence to produce the squareness you seek. The same goes for squareness across the end of the board – use shims logically placed on the shooting board surface to get the desired result. This is microadjustability<\/strong> under your control!<\/p>\n

A thicker fence can be attached for thicker workpieces or to stack workpieces to distribute blade wear. I seem never\u00a0to use miters in my work but a fence could be attached at any angle. The scale of this shooting board is more for drawer making but I have used it to shoot carcase boards by using an adjustable support alongside the workbench. Remember, the shooting board also works great for long grain edges<\/strong> on small pieces.<\/p>\n

A low angle, bevel up plane<\/strong> is ideal for shooting. I like the compact mass of the Lie-Nielsen “iron miter plane”. <\/a>Don\u2019t even think about shooting without a very sharp blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shooting has no equal for producing an accurately square (or angled) end on a board while incrementally removing minute thicknesses of wood to make a component fit just right. This shooting board has seen many years of use because it meets my preference for jigs to be simple and adjustable for tolerance. It is easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jigs-and-fixtures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}